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WO1996028797A1
WO1996028797A1 PCT/EP1995/004974 EP9504974W WO9628797A1 WO 1996028797 A1 WO1996028797 A1 WO 1996028797A1 EP 9504974 W EP9504974 W EP 9504974W WO 9628797 A1 WO9628797 A1 WO 9628797A1
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multimedia box
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Horst Niederlein
Thomas KÜHL
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NSM AG
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Priority claimed from DE19539172A external-priority patent/DE19539172C2/de
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Priority to EP95941715A priority Critical patent/EP0815544B1/fr
Priority to DE59507199T priority patent/DE59507199D1/de
Priority to GB9605126A priority patent/GB2298944B/en
Publication of WO1996028797A1 publication Critical patent/WO1996028797A1/fr
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
    • G07F7/10—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means together with a coded signal, e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric data
    • G07F7/1008—Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
    • G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
    • G06Q20/34—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
    • G06Q20/346—Cards serving only as information carrier of service
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/30—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for musical instruments
    • G07F17/305—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for musical instruments for record players
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B27/00—Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
    • G11B27/002—Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B2220/00—Record carriers by type
    • G11B2220/20—Disc-shaped record carriers
    • G11B2220/25—Disc-shaped record carriers characterised in that the disc is based on a specific recording technology
    • G11B2220/2537—Optical discs
    • G11B2220/2545—CDs

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  • the invention relates to a multimedia box, in particular a music box to be operated with money, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • CDs as mass memories has also made it possible to digitally store video and / or image information and display it on a monitor.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to create a multimedia box of the type specified at the outset, which can be operated inexpensively and at the same time with an increased range of services.
  • the mass memory is a semiconductor memory chip.
  • Semiconductor memories are available today in the megabyte range at relatively low costs, so that they can also be used for storing digitally coded pieces of music and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics. 32-megabyte memories are currently under development and it is expected that 64-megabyte and even larger capacity memories will be manufactured in the foreseeable future at reasonable prices.
  • the multimedia box according to the invention does not have any mechanically moving parts, such as plate turntables and gripper and transport units for removing plates from storage compartments, transporting the plates to the turntable and returning them Plates in the compartments that hold them.
  • selected pieces of music and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics can be played without pauses, since direct access to the selected pieces of music and / or video deodorants and / or images and / or graphics without moving mechanical parts is possible.
  • playing pieces of music without a break is only possible with greater technical effort and using at least two playback units.
  • Another advantage of the multimedia box according to the invention is that new pieces of music can be updated without much maintenance.
  • the costs for the operator can be further reduced by the fact that different pieces of music and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics can be played in multi-tasking mode from a central storage unit on several end devices.
  • the multimedia box according to the invention also has the advantage that the user can access an expanded range of services.
  • the number of pieces of music and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics made available for selection can be expanded as desired, and the mass storage can be expanded in various ways.
  • the music box according to the invention is characterized by robustness, low weight and small dimensions, since mechanically moving parts can be dispensed with.
  • the mass storage device can be expanded almost arbitrarily if at least part of the mass storage device is stored in a central storage unit which is connected to the terminal device via remote data transmission.
  • the multimedia box according to the invention requires a relatively low energy requirement due to the use of electronic storage components.
  • Another advantage of the multimedia box according to the invention is that the use of semiconductor memory chips enables a high data transfer rate and, at the same time, a secure copy protection during data transfer between different semiconductor memory chips to be achieved.
  • the multimedia box requires a control unit comprising a microprocessor, a program and working memory and one or more memory chips on which the audio and / or video and / or image and / or graphic data are stored, a DA converter with amplifier and loudspeaker and a monitor.
  • a coin and / or banknote unit is additionally provided which only then permits a certain number of pieces of music to be selected in accordance with the available credit.
  • the memory chips are expediently arranged on memory plug-in cards which can be inserted into holders of the multimedia box provided with contacts. As a result, the memory chips loaded with the respective data can be exchanged in a simple manner.
  • Several contact holders for memory cards are expediently provided.
  • the multimedia box can be provided with a battery of contact holders, so that a large number of memory chips can be inserted into them.
  • the mass storage device is preferably designed in such a way that it is not necessary to transfer the data to other storage media.
  • a plug-in card adapter which is accessible outside the multimedia box is provided for the memory plug-in cards, so that the mass storage device is temporarily removed Memory cards are expandable.
  • the plug-in card adapter can preferably only be activated after payment of a sum of money.
  • the user is given the opportunity to exchange digital data between a memory card he has brought with him and the mass storage device. For example, it is possible for pieces of music and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics which are stored on a user-specific memory card to be played by the multimedia box as soon as the user inserts the memory card into the card has supplied tenadapter.
  • the plug-in card adapter can also consist of a holder provided with contacts, but preferably an automatic input and output mechanism (mail slot) is used. With such an input and output mechanism, not only can memory cards that have been brought in be taken in and taken out, but unused memory cards can also be purchased after payment of a money amount, a sufficient number of unused memory cards being provided in the multimedia box for this purpose.
  • the use of a plug-in card adapter means that the memory plug-in card can be used universally for storing digital multimedia data. In addition to the preferred storage of digital music pieces and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics, for example computer graphics or computer programs can also be exchanged via the plug-in card adapter.
  • At least one memory chip is provided with a table of contents which contains the memory address for each piece of music, video or image.
  • the control unit is matched to the table of contents in such a way that it can be used to select the address assigned to the selected piece of music, video or image.
  • Each memory chip thus additionally contains a table of contents which contains the respective selection key or the respective selection code as the input variable and the start address of the piece of music, video or image as the permanently assigned output variable.
  • the table of contents can also contain special information on the respective piece of music, video or image.
  • the memory chips can be permanently programmed memories (ROM). However, the memory chips are expediently programmable (PROM) or repeatably programmable (EPROM). Battery RAMs or RAMs buffered by the multimedia box's power supply can also be used as repeatedly programmable memories.
  • the information in the table of contents loaded on the memory chips can preferably be displayed on a monitor.
  • the data collected in the tables of contents of the memory chips appear on the monitor in the form of texts and / or images and / or graphics and, if appropriate, with additional information, so that the user reads a selection code from the monitor and uses the code Control unit can enter.
  • the display on the monitor can take place continuously or can be advanced by the control unit.
  • the control unit preferably consists of a keyboard and / or a touch monitor (touch screen) and can optionally also include a remote control.
  • the new data can be called up from remote centers which contain the required and in particular particularly popular and new pieces of music and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics.
  • An exchange of the memory cards in the multimedia box is thus not necessary, so that the memory cards can remain in the multimedia box at all times.
  • the memory chips can be updated in accordance with the data stored in the multimedia box.
  • the memory chips themselves it is possible for the memory chips themselves to be located in the remote center, the data loaded on the memory chips then being able to be called up directly by the multimedia box via remote data transmission.
  • various centers remote from the multimedia box are expediently connected to one another by remote data transmission.
  • This makes it possible to exchange audio and / or video and / or image and / or graphic data between different control centers, so that the required expansion of the mass storage in a control center and also in the terminal of the multimedia box can be minimized .
  • a copy protection during the transmission of the data can be ensured in that a suitable data transmission protocol is defined on the semiconductor memory chips by means of appropriate software or also by a corresponding design of the data interface.
  • a further advantageous embodiment provides that the digital data are stored in a compressed form on the memory chips.
  • To play the digital data must be decompressed again.
  • the compression and decompression of digital audio, video or image data finally, the associated encoder and decoder is known in principle.
  • the compressed data can be transferred directly from one memory card to the other memory card.
  • disturbed data can also be suppressed without the playback suffering a noticeable loss in quality.
  • a special form of playing music is in so-called "video clips". According to a further preferred embodiment, it is therefore provided that videos or images can simultaneously be displayed on the monitor when the digitally stored audio data is played back.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the front view of a multimedia box
  • 3 is a top and side view of a battery of memory cards
  • Fig. 6 shows a third embodiment of the invention and Fig. 7 shows a fourth embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows the front view of a multimedia box 1 with the additional devices according to the invention.
  • a screen 6 is embedded in the front panel so that it is clearly visible to the operator, and there is a keyboard 5 next to it for entering letters and / or combinations of numbers.
  • a coin slot 8 is located above the control elements and is followed by coin processing in the device.
  • two loudspeakers 7 are inserted for outputting the digitally stored music pieces.
  • display elements 9, 10 can be provided on the front panel in order to indicate certain states of the device.
  • circuit modules of which a battery 3 of memory cards 2 and a control unit (SE) 4 are shown in dashed lines.
  • FIG. 2 shows a memory plug-in card 2 which serves as a carrier for a memory chip 2a and which is provided on one longitudinal side with a row of plug contacts 2b. Each plug contact is connected to a pin of the memory chip.
  • 3 shows how several memory cards are combined in a battery 3 of memory cards. The memory cards can be inserted into the battery contact holder.
  • the control unit 4 which is a microcomputer, controls all device functions.
  • the operator can activate the device by throwing in the required amount of money.
  • the coin processing 8a checks whether the requested one is actually Amount was thrown.
  • An overview of all pieces of music that are stored in digital form on the memory chips then appears on the screen 6.
  • the information about the pieces of music, such as title, group of music, or the like, is stored on at least one memory chip, preferably on all memory chips, in a table of contents under a predetermined memory address.
  • the microcomputer 4 can thus read this information from each memory chip at the said memory address and display it on the screen 6, it being possible for the information to consist of text and / or images.
  • the keyboard 5 the operator can scroll between different screen pages like in a catalog.
  • a letter / number combination entered by the operator on the keyboard 5 is converted by the microcomputer 4 into a start address of the respective memory chip. This conversion is based on data information that is also stored in the table of contents of the memory chips.
  • the data stored under the start address thus calculated are then fed to a DA converter 11 in real time and output on the loudspeaker 7 via an amplifier 12. If several pieces of music have been selected by the operator, these can be played in succession without a pause, since a jump from a memory address of a piece of music to a memory address of another piece of music does not result in a time delay.
  • Digital data of any form can of course be stored on the memory chip.
  • digitized video information for example, can thus also be Save the form of still or moving images. This makes it possible in particular to play a so-called video clip on the music box.
  • the corresponding image information can thus be displayed in parallel on the screen 6.
  • FIG. 5 shows a second exemplary embodiment of the multimedia box according to the invention.
  • the internal structure of the multimedia box 1 is largely the same as the multimedia box in FIG. 4.
  • the control unit 4 is connected to a control center 14, in which a large number of pieces of music in the form of digitized audio, video, and / or image data on suitable mass storage devices, for example CD changers or other memory chips are stored.
  • the center 14 is connected to the multimedia box 1 by a remote data transmission line 13 and corresponding modems 13a and 13b. This makes it possible for the memory chips to be loaded with new pieces of music if necessary. These new pieces of music can preferably be requested from the device installer at the control center for a fee.
  • the newly transmitted pieces of music in turn contain tables of contents with information about the content of all data of a memory chip at the predetermined storage locations, so that the actual functional sequence for playing the musical pieces is identical to the functional sequence described under FIG. 4.
  • FIG. 6 shows a third exemplary embodiment of the multimedia box according to the invention.
  • the multimedia box 1 differs from FIG. 4 in that the memory chips are outsourced.
  • the memory chips can be located in a center from which the data are transferred to a plurality of terminals via suitable data long-distance lines 13 with corresponding modems 13a and 13b. This allows the number of required food Minimize cher chips.
  • FIG. 7 shows a fourth exemplary embodiment of the multimedia box according to the invention.
  • the multimedia box differs from FIG. 4 in that an externally accessible plug-in card adapter 15 is provided for memory plug-in cards.
  • the plug-in card adapter 15 consists of an automatic input and output mechanism (mail slot) in which memory plug-in cards, as shown in FIG. 2, can be fed and removed again.
  • the plug-in card adapter can be activated by paying a sum of money, which opens up various possibilities for the user.
  • the user can acquire blank memory cards, with a sufficient number of blank memory cards stored in the multimedia box.
  • the user can acquire a memory plug-in card which has already been recorded with selected pieces of music and / or videos and / or images and / or graphics before being issued to the user.
  • the user has to pay an additional amount of money and select the desired data using the keyboard 5.
  • the user has the option of feeding pre-recorded memory cards to the plug-in card adapter after payment of the money and then having them played by the multimedia box. It is also possible here for the user to copy the data stored on the memory card to free storage spaces in the mass storage device so that the respective multimedia box has permanent access to the respective data without the user having to always uses his own memory card for this.
  • an access authorization is provided on the user's own memory cards, such as simplifying the payment of corresponding amounts of money.
  • an account is managed on the memory card by the multimedia box, from which amounts can be debited after an individual secret number has been entered or to which amounts can be paid by paying a monetary amount.

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Une boîte multimédia (1), de préférence une boîte à musique à prépaiement, comprend une mémoire de masse (3) dans laquelle sont enregistrées des données numériques audio, vidéo, d'image et/ou graphiques, une unité de commande (5) qui permet à un utilisateur de sélectionner des morceaux de musique, des séquences vidéo, des images et/ou des graphiques enregistrés par des procédés numériques, et une unité de commande (4) à microprocesseur qui transmet à une unité d'amplificateur et de haut-parleurs (12, 7) les données numériques audio converties en signaux analogiques par un convertisseur numérique-analogique (11) et qui transmet à un moniteur les données vidéo, d'image et/ou graphiques. Selon l'invention, la mémoire de masse est constituée d'une ou plusieurs microplaquettes semi-conductrices de mémorisation (2).
PCT/EP1995/004974 1995-03-13 1995-12-15 Boite multimedia Ceased WO1996028797A1 (fr)

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EP95941715A EP0815544B1 (fr) 1995-03-13 1995-12-15 Boite a musique
DE59507199T DE59507199D1 (de) 1995-03-13 1995-12-15 Musikbox
GB9605126A GB2298944B (en) 1995-03-13 1996-03-11 Multimedia box

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DE19508992 1995-03-13
DE19508992.8 1995-03-13
DE19529157.3 1995-08-08
DE19529157 1995-08-08
DE19539172A DE19539172C2 (de) 1995-03-13 1995-10-20 Multimedia-Box
DE19539172.1 1995-10-20

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DE4228692A1 (de) * 1992-08-28 1993-01-21 Siemens Ag Chipkarte fuer audio- und videoinformationen
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